Great video! I have been discussing this with my wife for a while. We have a lot of stations with E85 here in Australia and it’s produced locally, where as we import all of our other fuel. Unfortunately Europe seems to be hell bent in driving this EV push and the rest of us are blindly following without thinking of other alternatives. Great video on the subject !
Thank you. The US is the same way for some reason. I don't know ow why they don't want to look at Brazil and see that this can work and be better. Or at least use it as an intermediate as EV is advanced
E85 cannot be transported through pipelines, must be stored in stainless steel. It is transported by rail or truck. Large scale use of this would bring problems. Using corn as a fuel supply on a large scale, would impact food and animal feed cost and availability. I did a napkin calculation and, excluding 18 wheel trucks, if every vehicle in CA went electric, you literally need to double the size of the current grid. Basically build twice the power generation sites, twice the transmission lines, twice the substations, etc. Also not everyone can charge their car in their garage or home. Where would all these charging sites be for these owners? A new EV with ZERO miles, has a carbon footprint equal to an ICE car with 300,000 miles. You need to mine 500,000 lbs of earth to build a 1,000 lb battery. Are EVs green? Absolutely not.
Nice. There's some information I did not have, thank you. To address your issue with corn and live stock feed prices, could not sugar cane be used to off set? That's what Brazil uses
@@JDArcher sugar cane is a tropical plant. Florida and Louisiana grow most of it. Corn definitely more hardy. That's why the Midwest has a ton of E85 stations. Corn is grown locally, and doesn't need to be transported (truck or rail) far for use at the oil refineries. Plus when you burn E85, you still get CO2. Plants absorb CO2, so it's not a problem for me. "Environmentalists" might disagree, but plants, through photosynthesis, produce oxygen...
I bought my new 2006 GMC Sierra as a flex fuel vehicle. It gets 14 mpg on E-85. It gets 18 mpg on E-10, 87 octane. It gets 20 mpg on 91 octane, E-0. I heard our insurance rates are increasing because of EV fires. There have been cargo ships full of new EV vehicles, where one vehicle catches on fire, so the entire full ship goes down in flames. Ferry boats carrying cars, can have the same result. EVs are very dangerous, and in my opinion, should be banned. 18:48
Why is someone in CA who prefers $1.35 fuel over $6.00 fuel a "liberal"? Very few people "scrape together" 40k, most people finance or lease. An EV or PHEV doesn't cost any more than the typical SUV and boatloads of people buy those who probably can't afford that poor consumer choice...then the "economics" of a gas SUVs are terrible with the gas mileage even vs an economy or mid sized ICE car. I was lucky I got my PHEV before the gas prices spiked and before the availability became so low. I'm positive it has saved me money already in just 18 months. If that makes me a "liberal" because I don't like flushing my money down the toilet, I guess I'm a proud liberal. If that makes me "rich", news to me.
@@JDArcher maybe I misunderstood you. There's nothing wrong with consumers left, right, or center not wanting to flush money down the toilet on fuel (we don't even need to get into environmental issues or the inefficiencies of ethanol, I'm from an Iowa ag family so I know ethanol). I paid about 4k extra to get the PHEV model of my car and broke even in about 15 months on gas savings since I drive 80% electric and live in CA. Now I usually get to pay $1.35 equivalent for fuel going forward and it's all pure profit. You pretend to care about "paying rent"...but I already saved money for that "rent" by getting a PHEV. So I should've wasted money the next 4-5 years on gas? Why? How is that helping my economics? You also act like everybody pays 40-45k cash, that's insane. If somebody is looking at an EV or PHEV it's more likely they're talking about a $400-600 monthly payment than coughing up cash for a car. Why base an argument on paying all cash when the vast majority lease or finance? The massive savings on fuel cost are instant the day they get the new car, so they can apply the hundreds of dollars a month they are saving on fuel directly to the payments. Your % of energy sources are wildly incorrect in California, CA has even had recent days where they ran 100% renewable for a few days, the first for any state. Even if an EV were ran on 100% coal (not the case anywhere, even in coal states) it would still be lower emissions than an ICE.
@@caseyhayes4590 the point i was trying to make is that low income families cannot afford the payments of a $40k+ car. They buy a car for around $1000 and hope it runs for a few years. They can't afford a $300 to $400 a month car payment. They also more than likely rent, where they probably won't be able to install a car charger. This creates a barrier to entry on EVs. Also according to the califonia energy commission only 32% of all electric production in California is clean/renewable energy
@@JDArcher Lack of a place to charge is a real issue until standard charge time gets down closer to 15-20 minutes, at least that fear is rational. Installing a charger in a garage is nothing to be worried about in the big picture in terms of cost and difficulty, but having a spot itself to charge is. PHEV owners can charge anywhere they can plug in an iPhone. I can charge my iPhone in 2 hours or my 20 mile PHEV range in 4 hours in the same standard 110v. Charging pure EVs is actually more of an issue for urban people in general than poor people. Even pretty well off people in big cities often don't have an electric metered parking spot. Conversely many rural poor people have a place to park with electricity. You'd be better off poor in Iowa charging where you own/rent that is likely to be a house with garage vs a middle class renter in inner city DC/Chicago/LA/NYC. At least until they have more legislation requiring apartment buildings to put in metered charging outlets. People with only street parking will probably need to wait for that charge time to get down. So I agree with the "where to plug in" concern but I'm afraid most of the rest of your reply and video paint the picture of someone who has some strange fear. Your worries about clean emission sources are incredibly misguided, like I said, even in a fantasy land where somebody has 100% coal it's still lower emission than an ICE, nowhere is using coal going forward. The future is renewable/hydro, natural gas, and nuclear probably in that order. People don't buy an EV because they think it's 100% renewable energy, that's a straw man. They buy it for reasons like they like the electric drive after actually feeling it, they like the convenience of charging at home like netflix instead of a gas station like blockbuster, they like 1.35 fuel instead of 6.00 fuel and they like that no matter what their electricity source they have a drastically lower emissions vehicle.
Great video! I have been discussing this with my wife for a while. We have a lot of stations with E85 here in Australia and it’s produced locally, where as we import all of our other fuel.
Unfortunately Europe seems to be hell bent in driving this EV push and the rest of us are blindly following without thinking of other alternatives.
Great video on the subject !
Thank you. The US is the same way for some reason. I don't know ow why they don't want to look at Brazil and see that this can work and be better. Or at least use it as an intermediate as EV is advanced
It is nice someone else realizes that electric cars aren't as great as they are made out to be.
they’ll find out when the GRID fails from OVERLOAD and LACK OF UPGRADES…
Facts upon facts upon facts
E85 cannot be transported through pipelines, must be stored in stainless steel. It is transported by rail or truck. Large scale use of this would bring problems. Using corn as a fuel supply on a large scale, would impact food and animal feed cost and availability.
I did a napkin calculation and, excluding 18 wheel trucks, if every vehicle in CA went electric, you literally need to double the size of the current grid. Basically build twice the power generation sites, twice the transmission lines, twice the substations, etc. Also not everyone can charge their car in their garage or home. Where would all these charging sites be for these owners?
A new EV with ZERO miles, has a carbon footprint equal to an ICE car with 300,000 miles. You need to mine 500,000 lbs of earth to build a 1,000 lb battery.
Are EVs green? Absolutely not.
Nice. There's some information I did not have, thank you.
To address your issue with corn and live stock feed prices, could not sugar cane be used to off set? That's what Brazil uses
@@JDArcher sugar cane is a tropical plant. Florida and Louisiana grow most of it. Corn definitely more hardy. That's why the Midwest has a ton of E85 stations. Corn is grown locally, and doesn't need to be transported (truck or rail) far for use at the oil refineries. Plus when you burn E85, you still get CO2. Plants absorb CO2, so it's not a problem for me. "Environmentalists" might disagree, but plants, through photosynthesis, produce oxygen...
Off topic question as i was sitting. Do you think we need to replace pcv valve ?
Why are you having issues?
@@JDArcher nope. But to to age of the car. I think it's time ... I also assume that check engine would come up.
@@StreetDrivenDaily unless it's clogged and having issues I wouldn't worry about it unless you want to
@@JDArcher hard to say ... I wish I knew when I did my spark plugs I'll do it over winter including fuel pumps
I bought my new 2006 GMC Sierra as a flex fuel vehicle. It gets 14 mpg on E-85. It gets 18 mpg on E-10, 87 octane. It gets 20 mpg on 91 octane, E-0. I heard our insurance rates are increasing because of EV fires. There have been cargo ships full of new EV vehicles, where one vehicle catches on fire, so the entire full ship goes down in flames. Ferry boats carrying cars, can have the same result. EVs are very dangerous, and in my opinion, should be banned. 18:48
Why is someone in CA who prefers $1.35 fuel over $6.00 fuel a "liberal"? Very few people "scrape together" 40k, most people finance or lease. An EV or PHEV doesn't cost any more than the typical SUV and boatloads of people buy those who probably can't afford that poor consumer choice...then the "economics" of a gas SUVs are terrible with the gas mileage even vs an economy or mid sized ICE car. I was lucky I got my PHEV before the gas prices spiked and before the availability became so low. I'm positive it has saved me money already in just 18 months. If that makes me a "liberal" because I don't like flushing my money down the toilet, I guess I'm a proud liberal. If that makes me "rich", news to me.
Not sure what brought this comment on
@@JDArcher maybe I misunderstood you. There's nothing wrong with consumers left, right, or center not wanting to flush money down the toilet on fuel (we don't even need to get into environmental issues or the inefficiencies of ethanol, I'm from an Iowa ag family so I know ethanol). I paid about 4k extra to get the PHEV model of my car and broke even in about 15 months on gas savings since I drive 80% electric and live in CA. Now I usually get to pay $1.35 equivalent for fuel going forward and it's all pure profit. You pretend to care about "paying rent"...but I already saved money for that "rent" by getting a PHEV. So I should've wasted money the next 4-5 years on gas? Why? How is that helping my economics? You also act like everybody pays 40-45k cash, that's insane. If somebody is looking at an EV or PHEV it's more likely they're talking about a $400-600 monthly payment than coughing up cash for a car. Why base an argument on paying all cash when the vast majority lease or finance? The massive savings on fuel cost are instant the day they get the new car, so they can apply the hundreds of dollars a month they are saving on fuel directly to the payments. Your % of energy sources are wildly incorrect in California, CA has even had recent days where they ran 100% renewable for a few days, the first for any state. Even if an EV were ran on 100% coal (not the case anywhere, even in coal states) it would still be lower emissions than an ICE.
@@caseyhayes4590 the point i was trying to make is that low income families cannot afford the payments of a $40k+ car. They buy a car for around $1000 and hope it runs for a few years. They can't afford a $300 to $400 a month car payment. They also more than likely rent, where they probably won't be able to install a car charger. This creates a barrier to entry on EVs.
Also according to the califonia energy commission only 32% of all electric production in California is clean/renewable energy
@@JDArcher Lack of a place to charge is a real issue until standard charge time gets down closer to 15-20 minutes, at least that fear is rational. Installing a charger in a garage is nothing to be worried about in the big picture in terms of cost and difficulty, but having a spot itself to charge is. PHEV owners can charge anywhere they can plug in an iPhone. I can charge my iPhone in 2 hours or my 20 mile PHEV range in 4 hours in the same standard 110v. Charging pure EVs is actually more of an issue for urban people in general than poor people. Even pretty well off people in big cities often don't have an electric metered parking spot. Conversely many rural poor people have a place to park with electricity. You'd be better off poor in Iowa charging where you own/rent that is likely to be a house with garage vs a middle class renter in inner city DC/Chicago/LA/NYC. At least until they have more legislation requiring apartment buildings to put in metered charging outlets. People with only street parking will probably need to wait for that charge time to get down. So I agree with the "where to plug in" concern but I'm afraid most of the rest of your reply and video paint the picture of someone who has some strange fear. Your worries about clean emission sources are incredibly misguided, like I said, even in a fantasy land where somebody has 100% coal it's still lower emission than an ICE, nowhere is using coal going forward. The future is renewable/hydro, natural gas, and nuclear probably in that order. People don't buy an EV because they think it's 100% renewable energy, that's a straw man. They buy it for reasons like they like the electric drive after actually feeling it, they like the convenience of charging at home like netflix instead of a gas station like blockbuster, they like 1.35 fuel instead of 6.00 fuel and they like that no matter what their electricity source they have a drastically lower emissions vehicle.